[newbie] ALSA --which services to start?
I cannot get sound to work, as explained in other posts. According to the SysV-Init Editor, the three following services are started, available, and on when I boot: alsa, alsasound, and sound. Yes, three different services with three different scripts. Is this too many? Do they conflict? Should I turn off one or more of these three? -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Proper modules.conf for CS423x Sound Card?
I have one sound card only. I has both a CS4237B sound chip and a CS9236 sound chip. From the ALSA INSTALL file, it appears that I must use the cs4236 driver. Here are the sound lines that I have in /etc/modules.conf. The first line was placed there by the Mdk 8.1 installation. I inserted all the rest after reading parts of the ALSA INSTALL file. I will number the lines for discussion purposes. 1 alias sound-slot-0 ad1848 2 alias char-major-116 snd 3 alias char-major-14 soundcore 4 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-cs4236 5 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 6 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss 7 alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss 8 alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss 9 alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss 10 alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss I hear a crackle when Gnome comes up, but then nothing. No sound applications work. Do 1 and 4 conflict? Should I have deleted 1 when I added 4? It appears that ad1848 is loaded twice. Lines 2-5 appear necessary according to the ALSA INSTALL file. Are these lines correct for my single sound card? Lines 6-10 are wild guesses based on examples in the ALSA INSTALL file. I know that the zeros in the first position point to my single sound card, but I have no idea about the services represented by the numbers (0, 1, 3, 8, 12) in the second position. I have no idea how to go about assigning the oss compatibility drivers. Do I need lines 6-10? If so, how do I verify the correctness of the service numbers? My modprobe command was modprobe snd-card-cs4236. Is that sufficient? -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Proper modules.conf for CS423x Sound Card?
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:23:11 +0100, Frans Ketelaars wrote: Here are the sound lines that I have in /etc/modules.conf. I commented out following line 1: 1 alias sound-slot-0 ad1848 Now, during boot, I see a message that the cs4236 driver loaded OK, and I hear a crackle. From that point on, I hear no sound no matter what I try to run. How do I un-mute sound? The ESD Volume Meter does not work. It reports the error that it cannot connect to sound daemon. It says to run esd at a command prompt. I get the same error message even after running esd at a command prompt as root. When I try to run esd as a non-root user, I get the following error messages: esd: failed to fix mode of /tmp/.esd to 1777 esd: Esound sound daemon unable to create unix domain socket: /tmp/.esd/socket The socket is not accessible by esd. KMidi reports an error that it can't open Output Device. XMMS would start but would not play sample.midi . XMMS produced no sound and no error report. It just seems to ignore efforts to play the file. The Audio Mixer fails to start. It reports that it is not able to open the audio device, suggests checking for permission to open /dev/mixer (I don't seem to have such a file), and says to make sure that sound support is compiled into the kernel. I left following lines 2-5 alone: 2 alias char-major-116 snd 3 alias char-major-14 soundcore 4 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-cs4236 5 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 Commenting out the following lines appeared to make no difference: 6 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss 7 alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss 8 alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss 9 alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss 10 alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss Yes, you must delete or comment out line 1. After a reboot the ad1848 module hopefully is out of the way. (there are other ways to remove unwanted modules of course). You can check with '/sbin/lsmod' which modules are loaded. Note: snd-ad1848 is _another_ module which _may_ be needed by ALSA for you soundcard. As noted, I still hear the crackle after commenting out the ad1848 driver in modules.conf. Does that mean I probably don't need it? I'm confused about whether and what sound support to have compiled into the kernel. Given that I am using the ALSA driver and it appears to be loading from modules.conf, do I still want sound compiled into the kernel? How do I check to see whether sound is compiled into the kernel and whether it is the right sound support? If I have the wrong sound support in the kernel, or if I do not want any sound support into the kernel, how do I get it OUT of the kernel and boot from the modified kernel? Do I want to compile ALSA support for the cs4236 into the kernel? Is that even possible? These lines are for OSS/Free compatibility and you do need them for most applications. I'm now listening to XMMS with the OSS output plugin, while using the ALSA drivers. I'm trying to ensure that old and new sound stuff works. Do lines 6-10 above appear to be the correct way to do? As noted, I am clueless about the meaning of services 0, 1, 3, 8, and 12. My modprobe command was modprobe snd-card-cs4236. Is that sufficient? Yes. If you didn't get any error it seems the ALSA driver was loaded! I see no error -- in fact, I see that the ALSA driver loaded OK -- during boot, prior to X. Does that mean that the modprobe command was okay? If not, should I expect to see an error message, apart from hearing no sound? Linux is difficult! -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Does Mdk 8.1 Use OSS or ALSA for Sound?
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:38:06 +0200, Mohammed Arafa wrote: search this mailing list for my post on cs423x crystal sound. Do you have a specific post in mind? I did a search but the results were not helpful in the sense of giving steps to make sound work. -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Need sample modules.conf for cs423x sound card
I can't figure it out. Would some who has a cs423x sound card working under Mdk 8.1 and alsa please post their /etc/modules.conf file? -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Does Mdk 8.1 Use OSS or ALSA for Sound?
I am having trouble getting my sound card (CS4237B + CS9236) to work. I cannot tell which sound system Mandrake 8.1 uses. Is it OSS or ALSA? How does one tell? -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] No Sound in Mandrake 8.1
I have never heard sound in Mdk 8.1. Linuxconf and SomethingDrake both recognize the card for what it is (Crystal something). I have the box checked for sounds at startup or whatever (in a different OS now). When I type esd at a command line, the output states: esd: Failed to fix mode of /tmp/.esd to 1777. esd: Esound sound daemon unable to create unix domain socket: /tmp/.esd/socket The socket is not accessible by esd. esd -trust is also unsuccessful. RealPlayer 8 gave an error message to the effect that the sound card or module could not be accessed and might be in use (by esd?). How do I get sound to work? -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi issues continued
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:40:12 -0500, NDPTAL85 wrote: can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Omit ftp://;? -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] WordPerfect 8.0 Printer Installation Problem
I have a printer installed under Mandrake 8.1. The printer works with a print test and Netscape. However, when I try to setup a printer for WP 8.0, I find no destination available for assignment to the printer. The only choice I get is between printing to disk and printing to $PRINTER, but I cannot assign a destination to $PRINTER. In Mandrake 8.1, my printer is called Brother and set up as an HP Laserjet IIP. When I installed WP 8.0, I installed the drivers for HP Laserjet IIP and for the specific Brother model that I have (which emulates the HP Laserjet IIP). As noted, however, the installation program that no destinations were available for assignment to either driver. I have seen discussion of creating a RAW printer, but I have no idea how to do that. Also, I don't see how I could assign a destination to that either. What am I doing wrong? How do I fix it? -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: WordPerfect 8.0 Printer Installation Problem
The problem was the printing system that I had installed for Mandrake 8.1. I originally installed PDQ and could not create a RAW printer. When I installed CUPS, that made it possible to create the RAW printer, thereby allowing WP 8.0 to print. In other words, it appears that WP 8.0 requires CUPS. -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing WordPerfect 8.0 under Mandrake 8.1
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 19:52:30 -0800, shane wrote: ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm and libc-5.3.12-35mdk.i586.rpm were both needed to install wp 8 under 8.0. Yep, they did the trick. -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] WordPerfect 8.0 Font Installer Crashes
I have WP 8.0 (commercial CD) on Mandrake 8.1. I have gotten past the problem requiring libc5 and ld.so2.0, and I have been able to get xwp running with the small number of fonts installed by default. However, I am having a serious problem trying to install additional adobe type 1 fonts. In short, xwpfi crashes when it tries to update wp.drs, shuts down with no error messages, and leaves xwp unstartable. I have reinstalled from CD several times, and the same thing occurs each time I try to install more fonts. When I try to delete fonts, I get and error message stating that the .all file or wp.drs is missing or corrupted. It appears to be a problem with wp.drs. Is this a known problem? Is there a fix? I have figured out that for any given font, I need both the .afm and .pfb files for that font. So long as I have both, I should be able to install any adobe type 1 font, right? I don't know if this is related, but I also am having printer problems. During installation, I cannot chose the installed system printer which works with, e.g., Netscape and the print test. The only printer choices are $PRINTER and saving to a text file. When I try to assign a destination to $PRINTER, I get an error messages that there are no destinations available. Is this a known problem? Is there a fix for it? -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing WordPerfect 8.0 under Mandrake 8.1
The installation fails. install.wp yields file not found. ./install.wp fails to prompt for installation directory, reports file not found repeatedly, and creates multiple empty directories at the top level. What is the trick? -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing WordPerfect 8.0 under Mandrake 8.1
It appears that the solution is to install the following: (a) libc5-5 (b) ld.so-1.9.11-4mdk I already have libc5.3.12-35mdk, which takes care of (a), right? When I tried to install (b), GnomeRPM reported two conflicts. Even when I said ignore these conflicts, the installation failed. What more must I do to install WP 8.0 under Mandrake 8.1? I paid for the commercial version of WP 8.0 a couple of years ago. I don't see any runme file. -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.1 Install Cannot Find SCSI CD-ROM
The log suggests that the problem is due to Buslogic.o not being found in archive. Where can I find Buslogic.o and how do I make it load? It does not appear to be present on the installation CD's or the boot disk. -- Jim Marshall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
